Larry Kudlow

Lawrence Alan "Larry" Kudlow (20 August 1947-) was Director of the National Economic Council from 2 April 2018, succeeding Gary Cohn.

Biography
Lawrence Alan Kudlow was born in Englewood, New Jersey in 1947, and he was an active Democrat during his youth, organizing Joseph Duffey's 1970 US Senate campaign. He began his career as a staff economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and he went on to work in the Office of Management and Budget under President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s and as a member of Governor George Pataki's tax commission. He left government for decades to work on wall street at Paine Webber and Bear Stearns as a financial analyst, serving as Bear Stearns' chief accountant from 1987 to 1994. In the late 1990s, after struggling with coocaine and alcohol addictions, he became an economic media commentator for National Review and CNBC. In 2016, he decided against a US Senate run in either New York or Connecticut, and, in 2018, Donald Trump appointed Kudlow to serve as Director of the National Economic Council.